FILLED WITH WATER.
“SHOW BOAT” CABARET. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 1. Well down in the water and with an acute list to starboard, the floating cabaret “The Show Boat,” moored on the city waterfront, was discovered ... a parlous condition this afternoon the lower deck and ballroom being flooded with thousands of gallons of salt water on which floated a heterogenous mass of debris. A passer-by noticed the peculiar position of the .craft and advised the proprietors. The situation was more critical because of the rapidHarbour Board stall arrived with a motor pump to draw off the water, but so ranidly was it flowing into the craft that the pump could not cope with it, and the men had to wait until the turn of the tide. At the turn of the tide the pump was brought into commission, but, although it”made good headway, about two clays will elapse before the ship will be emptied. This was a deliberate attempt to damage the vessel and it was the fourth within less than 18 months. Since between the beginning of October and the end of November, 1936, three other attempts were made.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 79, 2 March 1938, Page 9
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191FILLED WITH WATER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 79, 2 March 1938, Page 9
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